Asia Pacific/Australia/India
It is the need of the hour to have a clear understanding and message for all.
Sushma Bhatnagar
Professor and Head of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
I have no specific comments, however this is true that whenever there is any lecture in any part of India on end-of-life care, people are interested to know more and more about euthanasia and physician-assisted dying. It is the need of the hour to have a clear understanding and message for all. In India, we have developed various documents to clarify and emphasize how palliative care helps provide a good end, rather than thinking of euthanasia and physician-assisted dying.